Chapter 10&11

Chapter 10 discusses on extra forms of technologies that can help teachers come up with alternative ways of teaching for students who need or who are familiar to a different way of learning. Since there are so many different learners in the classroom the accommodations have to be made in order to success for all students and to have new effective learning. These accommodations have to be design because no teacher has the time to design individual material for every student every day. According to chapter 10 teachers can adjust their curriculum and instruction to find every student benefits. Not all students learn the same of course. so teacher to use different instructional(DI) and universal design for learning (UDL). Using DI and UDL with students to achieve each student interest in ways that will engage the multiple learning style, to give the students many ways to understand the information and to offer appropriate challenge. Redesign and design classroom environment and change the ways curriculum delivered are important to improve the student learning.

Technology is the greatest assistive tool available to teachers to support all learners. some students struggle in school to find connections between academic content and their experiences. the teachers can use technology to make material become more accessible. However, Technology assistive comes in many forms to promote learning success for many different students. especially, assisting students with disabilities. One point in the chapter I found it interesting that technology help student to write confidently by allowing students to revise, edit, draft, and publish all in one document. Furthermore, technology provide for students to check their spelling and grammar.

Chapter 11 emphasize about the assessment in teaching and learning.in addition, the chapter 11 shows Three interrelated elements of assessment are: new teacher assessment, student assessment, and student self-assessment. SO, the technology plays important role to assess student and teacher’s performance since it displays in the actual real-word learning they have experience in school. Table 11.1 shows a comparison chart of types of performance evaluation of students and teachers.

The chapter illustrate the digital portfolio that is “a collection of educational materials stored in an electronic format such as a CD-ROM, website, or computer file” – which means that students can save their work to a disk, a CD, or a web page.

 A digital portfolio has some advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages of digital portfolios are that they are accessible, portable, creative, show technological self-confidence, and community. Some disadvantages of digital portfolios are that they require knowledge and skill, can sometimes need professional support, can sometimes use expensive equipment, takes more time and energy to create, need for increased viewer skills and equipment, and the presentation distracts away from the content. I think a digital portfolios require a large time and effort from me as teacher, but it has meaningful effective to growth and development me as teachers and student learning over time. I believe allowing students to creating portfolios can give students the voice in education make-decision.

I liked how online survey involve students to become in the assessment process because without student involvement, the student will just receivers, which effect student’s learning efficiency. Using participate system is a good way to encourages actively all students to participate that can lead student to understand more the academic materials and stored in the long-term memory. Also, it helps student to assessment them self to know their mistakes and learn from these mistakes.

Chapter 7&8 reflection

Technology offers powerful support for promote inquiries learning, problem solving skills, and sharing ideas especially when teachers practice website education in classroom. I think teachers are responsible for integrating technology into curriculum in order to promote student’s achievements. In chapter 7 shows the teachers what types of software, the standard of software application, and what a good software that teachers can use in education. Furthermore, open source software is allowing students to read what others have written and they can share their writing.

I believe chapter 7 helped the teachers to identify many ways to evaluate the soundness of the software. In addition, I agree that using video games in learning will increase student’s motivation and capture student’s attention. Conversely, I disagree with chapter 7 when is mention the negative impact of video games on student behaviors. From my experience as a video games player: 1) video games improved my English language skills. 2) helped me to escape from the pressure of life. For example, one time I had bad day at school instead of crying or being depressed I played  Ps2 to forget what happened that day .3) Playing video games may also help children develop problem-solving skills. I think if the parents of the child teach them child these things in the video games are not real, the child won’t be affected by violent video games.

However, there is a big different between a games for education and games for entertainment. The games for education allow students to go through process that requires the students to make decision. After that the games give them feedback and reflect on their decision. Chapter 7 demonstrate strategies for teachers to use these games with students. I think it is beneficial to give the teachers better view of how to use these games. Tutorials systems displayed pictures and videos to teach students basic skills and new information. I feel tutorial is a good way to improve students learning individuals because it gives instruction and feedback.

Today education encourage students to communicate with peers and with teachers by using technology communication tools. Chapter 8 illustrate for teacher multiple technology communication tools to have the appropriate tools to support teachers teaching.  I believe when teachers involve social network in classroom they send a message for student how to interact with people around them and how to see the world from different views.

Chapter 8 shows why teacher should use electronic communications to have better learning. use electronic communications is “communication allows transmission of message or information using computer systems, fax machine, e-mail, tele or video conferencing and sate lite network “by MEAM Editorial Team.

Email and instant message give the teachers the opportunity to contact with students outside the school, with families, professional, and colleagues. I think email is the perfect tool for communication because it has many advantage for teacher and student rather than other tools. On other hand, creating blogs and website for learning can have positive outcomes: 1) help students to improve their writing skills. 2) give the students the freedom to publish their writing for everybody can see and share their experience.

Wiki is powerful tool for group to collaborate. I think I will apply it with my students because we can work together to create wikitext depend on the curriculum content. So, my students will have better understanding of curriculum content.

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We are looking deep for what is WebQuests?

We achieve:

Evaluation online sources

Design online materials

Create inquire task

We should engage our student by WebQuest

What is the steps to do  WebQuest

Intro

Task (what are producing?) Giving them project to be completed

Process: direction-steps-sites

Evaluation

Conclusion

  Teacher page

Examples for  WebQuests

Capter #6 reflection / 7266 edu

In recent years the internet-beads deployment rapidly and now almost everyone can easily access to information so, we have to managing information that can include organize, storing, and curriculum resources. In the chapter talk about bookmarking, social bookmarking, and information alerts , When I read every one of them I found these information is old for me specially bookmarking ,but I don’t know about that social bookmarking allows us to create public list can everyone to see and  to be part of community . Also, I don’t know there is such like Google alert I think is useful to know about what is the new information online

Building my own standard connector to have powerful learning. I think when the teacher build her own standard connector she will help her student to build unforgettable learning experience and help the teacher to located and store web-based academic through curriculum framework.

There are many ways to engage and interaction student learning and one of these way is webquests I think is creative to design webQuests because it guide student to assess and search for academic information . So, the classroom will be active. When I read about virtual field trip and video conference and how can take the students from all over the word without leaving the classroom and how professional can talk with student through internet, I thought why we can development this method and see things we cannot see usually. For example, what happens inside our body or see what happens under the earth by using technology.

I understand that teacher can use education web-based as source of internet-based digital content to teach K-12 learning curriculum and can present excellent website to interactive, exploring their own question by self-direction, engaging student with materials through mysteries, stories, and controversial issue.

When I finished from the reading I realized that we need to know more about education websites and other online resources in higher learning to improve teaching practice and help student to development the understanding of their learning.

 

Chapter # 5 / 7266 edu

The existence of the internet in schools make the learning enjoyable and active because internet a richer information that serve topics learning. Teachers and students can be able to access web-based resource to help them finding information for doing learning task but not all information in the we-based can be trust. So, how can we protect our children to read untrusted information? According to the chapter we should teach our students to assess resource and materials they found it online, in the TV, or reading newspaper and Magazine to analyze and interpret materials. In other words, to be able to do information literacy. Also, before using and present online information to student, teacher see if it trusted and reliable or not.

Now days, almost all school and classroom able to access into the web-based and that can give area to learn new information processing skills to retrieval and assessment information. I think teacher should develop information and media literacy skills start with first level grade to prepare today’s generation for future to assist the economic growth and better education, and to live and work successfully. So, our students need to know the basic competencies of reading, writing, analyzing, and solving problem by knowing new technology-based literacy for learning and working in the modern world.

“Let me try “I agree with this sentence because it allows students to learn from them mistake and learn to learn dependably to affect more on students learning. I think is better than taking lecture in class or doing worksheets assignment .So, integrate technology-based activities help internal learning.

I know now that search engines saves time and effort to retrieval information because it is speed, and able to located topic – related website. So, teacher and students can find specific academic information by typing words and phrase in keywords to locate matching web pages. After that teacher and students can save and organize written materials by taking electronic note.

I read in the chapter that Google’s system is the most popular online searching in the world and is very useful for many things, I agree with that I use it every day. When I became a teacher I will search with my students to inspiring them knowledge and teach them how to search for information , but before doing that as teacher I have first to sort through masses  of material to present what web pages is good for helping students to learn? . If teacher found unappropriated web site for students she might block ,censorship, filter, partitions ,labels or critical reading it because some website content informing that focus on incomplete, misinformation, harmful information, poorly organized , trivial information .Also , we do not now who is the writer that behind the screen . We need strategies to evaluate internet information.

The most interesting part in this chapter for me is recognize the URL because finally now I know what dose these symbol means (com, org, gov, net, edu, and mill).  Plagiarism is popular among students because it is easy and fast to do homework .So , I Think we have to reduce it by giving homework depend on thinking and solving problem .

Oct 14 blog

I have learned websites to help my teaching in the future such as www.edudemic.com/ 

 edutopia.org and www.iste.org

What is the most website common visit it

Block some website to product our student because we don’t know what they capably to do and what website they go to?

Pro and Cons for Wikipedia.

We can edit Wikipedia but it has to be approved.